Indoor. Ive some room in my home office in front of a window that gets a good amount of sunlight. Was thinking about attempting to grow a coffee plant.
Growing enough for more than an occasional cup will take a large amount of infrastructure...
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Wow. I guess my one plant wouldnt do much then lol. I may still try it just to see if i can do it for the experience. Also ive experimented my coffee, if i bag the used grounds, i can reuse them a second time with decent coffee. If i rebag them, and add a 1fresh tbsp, its on par with day 2s coffee. Ive done some more extensive test but you get the point. I can make it 7 days on 10tbsp of grounds and i use 6 per 12 cups of coffee usually.A quick search on the Duck finds:
How Many Coffee Plants Do You Need To Be Self Sufficient? – Better Coffee At Home
The average american drinks about 3 cups of coffee a day. How many coffee plants would you need to grow to sustain your coffee drinking habits?
33 coffee plants per person, for a 3-cup-per-day habit.
Chicory wouldnt be much of a challenge. It grows wild here so i know i could grow it. Just seems like the yield would suck vs effort put in since the root is what you make the coffee substitute from. Just like everything else once the root is gone the plant is done.
You can buy bulk caffeine cheap. Not so easy to get pure in bulk as it’s really easy to OD, but I have several pounds of pure 200mg powder capsules stashed away. The bulk you buy now is usually 10%.
Chicory grows on the side of the road practically everywhere.
Wrong agriculture zone, depending on where you are.
The idea is more because of love for coffee, and it would spend the cold months in my home office in front of the window. Its not intended to be a bugout bag item, Just a comfort item in case of total societal collapse.
Ive thought about that and probably will but then id still run out at some point. I figured any drinkable coffee will be right up there with tobacco and ammunition as far as trading currency goes in a SHFT scenario. I know i can grow tobacco and ive already got plans to move into a building with a courtyard i can turn into a greenhouse etc...Good coffee beans are very picky about their growing conditions. Even well known Arabica beans supposedly vary a lot according to seasonal environmental conditions.
You might well be able to pull off growing something drinkable. Or you could work it for years and never get a cup.
Just think about the reason you see no American grown coffee advertised. We'd all buy it, wouldn't we?
I'd suggest storing a bunch of a variety of green beans from well known locations. Green coffee beans have a long shelf life, while roasted beans are best ground and brewed in a week or two.
Then concentrate coffee efforts on a good repeatable roast mix, a grind you and wifey are happy with and a daily brewing method that works for you.
Warning...
The deeper you delve into good coffee, the more things change in your procedures.
